[LAU] which apps to choose for the job and how to set things up?

[Julien Claassen]

Hi!
  I think you might try ardour. I know it can host and record VST-generated 
sounds. At least I believe so. Anyone can confrim?
  With your setup, it seems to me you might want to kick timidity++ out of 
your chain. Timidity plays sounds using its own sounds (GUS-patches or 
soundfonts), if not for me it had a great latency. I don't know exactly about 
freeST, but it might have it's own midi port. So in an xterm or on the console 
you may try:
aconnect -li
and
aconnect -lo
  This will display all alsasequencer midi-ports currently in existence. You 
can also use some graphical patchbay to do the same. I think ghostess is a 
nice one, just search for "patchbay", you should get a list of them.
  Then connect your rosegarden midi-out (if it has one) to your freeVST in (if 
that has one) and connect your FreeVST jack_output to audacity. So take the 
following example:
aconnect -li
16: soundcard midi
128: FreeVst

aconnect -lo
16: soundcard
129: rosegarden

aconnect 129 128 # rosegarden-output to freevst
jack_lsp
[...] # soundcard ports
Audacity:in_1
Audacity:in_2
Audacity:out_1
Audacity:out_2
FreeVST:out_1
FreeVST:out_2

jack_connect FreeVST:out_1 Audacity:in_1
jack_connect FreeVST:out_2 Audacity:in_2

And then start your rosegarden. If rosegarden sends a proper start-control for 
all the apps, recording and playback will start simultaneously.
  Another choice for rosegarden might be: MuSE (not sure about the 
capital-letters in there. At least it can do audio and midi in one tool. I 
don't know about ardour's capacity to playback MIDI-files, but it might also 
be achoice, although a very powerful - and with that - probably moe complex 
choice.
  Hope that helps!
  Kindest regards
         Julien

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